Evan evans and jopin davies



1 button is slid in, between these projecting 3 NITED ATENT OFFICE.

CLIP OR FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,509, dated May 30, 1893.

Application filed February 1, 1892- Serial No. 419,858. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EVAN EVANS, ironmonger, and JOHN DAVIES, draper, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Llanrwst, in the county of Denbigh, Principality of WVales, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clips or Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an apparatus or appliance for attaching braces or other articles to buttons or studs.

In the accompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clip or fastening; Fig. 2, a back elevation; Fig. 3, avertical section; Fig. 4 a vertical sect-ion showing the method of fastening.

Referring first to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive: We stamp, preferably out of a single sheet of metal, a clip, consisting of a combined semicircular hook A, a spring or tongue piece B and a buckle bar 0, round which latter the strap sewing or lashing of vthe braces D or other article passes. E is abutton, and F the garment to which it is attached. The circular hook A consists of a flat plate or semi-circular-disk a, fitting over the face of the button or stud, and having a series of projecting lips or a projecting rim a, hooked over in the form of a circular hook, so that, when the lips a and the plate or disk at aforesaid, the button will be held from escaping except in the direction of the tongue pieceB and buckle bar 0. The buckle bar 0 is preferably formed of the body of the metal bent over and a piece cutoutimmediatelyin front of thebend. The body of the metal is preferably made wider at this point to allow a sufficiently wide slot for the strap sewing or lashing. The spring tongue piece B is an extension of this bent over portion, and the body of the metal is perforated for it at b. The body of the tongue piece is bent with a perpendicular face. This has to be forcibly pressed against the body of the clip to allow'the button to enter the hooked rim. The moment, therefore, the

button has passed, the spring tongue piece Bis sition. The perpendicular face of the tongue piece prevents the button from escaping from the hooked rirn a. The body of the metal is pressed outward at Gso that it forms aguard for the tongue piece, and, when the finger is pressed on the tongue piece, the thumb can be on this guard G, or vice versa. This prevents any chance of an inexperienced person pressing with the finger on the back of the tongue piece and also with the thumb on the end of the tongue piece, and thus defeating his object. lVhere the guard is used, this is impossible.

Instead of making the spring tongue piece B an extension of the bent over'portion, it may be made of a separate piece of metal, and riveted or otherwise fixed to the body of the clip.

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 depict the tongue B stamped out of the metal and bent with aperpendicular face opposite the semi-circular hook A. This has to be forcibly pressed down to allow the button to enter or be withdrawn from the hook. The buckle bar 0 is dispensed with, and, in its place, the brace strap is secured by bending the edges of the clip 0 and pressing the serrated portion into the strap. The tongue pieceB is stamped with protuberances d on each side, which, when the tongue piece is bent, come upon the solid sides of the body and thus prevent the tongue piece from being forcibly drawn out too far.

The following are some of the advantages of the invention:

First. The semicircular hook which clips on the button or stud does not reach or touch the thread which attaches the button to the garment. The button is, therefore, not nearly so liable to come off.

Second. It is a much easier and quicker way to attach the clip on to the button orstud than to attach the ordinary brace straps to the button.

We declare that what we claim is A clip or fastening comprising a body having its lower end semi-circular, bent over inwardly creating a button receiving pocket, a

allowed to spring into its naturalnormal ponames to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EVAN EVANS. JOHN DAVIES.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK WILLIAMS,

32 Weaver Street, Chester. THOS. ARTHUR FLETCHER,

Notary Public, Chester. 

